Is anyone really mourning the demise of Firkin pubs? A visit to one of the remaining pubs, the Fox and Firkin on Lewisham High Street, should dissuade anyone from donning their rose-tinted spectacles. Basically: big, roomy pub,...

Known as Shillelagh's until recently, Temple Bar is an unreconstructed Irish pub that does a job for its locals. The Guinness, as you'd expect, is fine and there was snooker on the telly (though the reception was inexplicably...

We're not sure how much significance to read into it, but in this part of London the pubs appear to have either a mainly white clientele or a mainly black clientele. On our visit here the latter dominated, notwithstanding the...